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" Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. "

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" Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them. "

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" The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. "

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" Let deeds match words. "

" Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. "

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" The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. "

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" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. "

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" Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. "

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" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "

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" Start wide, expand further, and never look back. "

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" The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. "

" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "

" He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. "

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" Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. "

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" Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. "

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